The Liberals took 5.34 per cent of the national vote and 19 of the 349 seats, clear of the 4 per cent threshold. The share comes from the final count published by the Swedish Election Authority on 19 September 2026 and from its decision on the Riksdag result of the same date, which records 361,187 votes for the party.
Resolves YES if the Liberals' national vote share in the final count published on val.se is 4.00% or higher. If the final count is not published by 18 September, the preliminary count on val.se governs; if val.se is unreachable, the share as reported by at least two of Reuters, BBC News and Al Jazeera suffices.
In four of the last eight elections the government stayed in power. We looked at every Swedish election since 1991, nine in all, and show the last eight. In four, the government's side won more seats than its rivals and stayed in office, and in four it lost. In every close race, the seat count turned on which small parties cleared the 4% line.